At this hour, an accident involving a small car and a school bus near Walhalla. It was a loud-sounding crash on Fowler Road in front of Walhalla Elementary that awoke at least one neighbor. A report from the scene indicates EMS has deployed a stretcher for someone injured inside the car. All students aboard the…

U-haul vans were spotted yesterday in front of the Oconee County Economic Development Office in Walhalla. The staff has begun to vacate their two-story house building office in the county seat, in advance of their move to the 123 Seneca By-Pass in an office building now occupied by the Oconee Alliance. The county’s E-D commission…

Landscape engineers will walk with Walhalla leaders a week from today over the entire four-block section of Main Street, as a way to get ready for the first phase of Streetscape. That first phase is to include the replacement of aging utilities lines beneath the street and sidewalks. James Moore, Walhalla’s public works director, recommended…

A land exchange with Oconee County will allow an Atlanta area developer a building location inside the county’s Golden Corner Commerce Park at Fair Play. And that, according to County Administrator Scott Moulder, will position the county to receive another spec building to be used as a carrot to attract an industrial rabbit. The deal,…

Walhalla leaders are balking on the question of whether the Joint Regional Sewer Authority should release county government from an annual financial obligation. As a member city of the JRSA, Walhalla City Council gets a say on whether to rescind an agreement that pays the JRSA $610 thousand until the year 2038. Last night the…

There’s buzz in Seneca that the city has it eyes on a couple of big-name entertainers for Seneca Fest 2014. City officials tell 96.3/WGOG NEWS those entertainers are the country music legend John Anderson and the pop-country group the Bellamy Brothers. And, for the Bellamy Brothers, the engagement would make for a return performance in…